My Journey to Self-Taught Data Scientist

I became a Data Scientist by quitting my job and competing in Kaggle competitions.

This is my Kaggle profile. And yes, that’s a picture of me holding a catfish!

After I graduated from college in early 2014, I knew that I wanted to become a Data Scientist, but I didn’t have the skillset yet. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I needed to learn to get my foot in…